Legal troubles for Ranbir Kapoor’s Ramayana

Ranbir Kapoor’s Ramayana in legal troubles

Ramayana happens to be the biggest ever Indian film in the making. Ranbir Kapoor and Sai Pallavi are playing the lead roles in the movie. Sunny Deol and Yash will be seen as important characters in this movie. Nitesh Tiwari is directing this mythological epic.

Madhu Mantena, Allu Aravind, and Namit Malhotra were the producers of this project initially but Madhu Mantena and Allu Aravind walked out of it for undisclosed reasons. Prime Focus Entertainment is the production company that is taking forward this project.

Now, Allu Mantena Media Ventures LLP has released an official statement regarding the making of Ramayana. “The members of the public are hereby informed and put to notice that Prime Focus Technologies Limited had according to an Assignment Agreement entered into, with our client Allu Mantena Media Ventures LLP in April 2024 sought to acquire the Intellectual Property Rights of our client in the Project Ramayana (being the script and material ‘Ramayana’ based on the epic) for an agreed consideration amount as per the terms of the Assignment Agreement. However, the assignment under this Assignment Agreement has not taken effect to date, as the payment required to be made by Prime Focus Technologies Limited for the assignment to take effect, has not been made to our client. Accordingly, the rights in Project Ramayana continue to vest in our client and Prime Focus Technologies Limited has no right, title, or interest in it. The use/exploitation of the script or material or any rights of our client in Project Ramayana, by Prime Focus Technologies Limited in its upcoming film ‘Ramayana’ (being directed by Nitesh Tiwari) or by any person claiming through or under Prime Focus Technologies Limited or by any person claiming through or under Prime Focus Technologies Limited or by any other person enabling the same constitutes an infringement of our client’s copyright, for the protection whereof, our client shall take the necessary steps as may be advised”